Improvement in culinary vessels



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Culinary-Vessels.-

N0 l5`];747, Patented Dec. 15,1874.

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RANTOUL, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CULINARY VESSELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 157,747, dated December15, 1874; application filed May 16, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALoYs FRoMLET, of Rantoul, in the county ofChampaign and State of Illinois, have invented a new and valuableImprovement in Attachments for Cook-Stoves; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, `and exact description of theconstruction and operation of the same, reference being had to theannexed drawings making a part of this specification, and to the lettersand figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawing is a representation of a side view of mycook-stove attachment, and Fig. 2 is a sectional view. Fig. 3 is adetailed sectional View.

This invention has relation to means whereloy odors and steam arisingfrom cooking are conducted into the tIue of a stove; and it'consists ina hollow stove-support, from which rises a tube to enter a pot or othersimilar vessel at or near its highest point, by which disagreeablevapors, steam, and smells are conducted into a stove, and are eitherdecomposed or pass up the fine, all as will be hereinafter more fullyexplained.

In the annexed drawings, A designates a pot-hole of a stove, to which isapplied a hollow basesupport, B, f'or a pot or vessel, whichbase-support may be secured upon the pot hole by means of hooks a, ormay be cast with the upper stove-plate.

In practice I prefer to have the hollow of the base-support B extend allaround the pothole; but l may have it extend only partly around. Uponthis base-support and through a perforation in the upper surface thereofrises a tube composed of sections C Gl C2, or only of one piece. Bymeans of these sections I am enabled to regulate the height of thistubular attachment to suit the height of any pot or vessel, and I shall,in practice, use this device in connection with stoves and ranges, orother furnaces Where the pots are removably applied; but forsoap-boilers or other like stationary vessels I prefer to use the singlesection.

When using a sectional attachment I apply a spring, S, as shown in Fig.3, to prevent the sections from telescoping, or sliding the one Withinthe other.

D is a pot having a lid, E, with bent portions e e in the circumferencethereof, for the purpose of admitting air into the pot. Upon the uppersurface of the lid E I construct a tubular duct, F, applied to said lidin a perforation in the highest part thereof, and it is provided at itsouter extremity with a hook, f, which, when placed over the upper endot' section G2, serves to hold the duct F and section C2 in close union,thus preventing the escape of any odors or steam into the room while ontheir way down the tubes into the base-support.

Instead of making a connection with the interior of a pot by means ofduct F upon the upper surface of the lid E, I may make a connectiondirectly with the pot or vessel at or near its highest portion by meansof a perforation therein, and a shoulder or collar applied around saidperforation to receive the end of section G2.

It Will be seen thatI have invented a pot support in part or whollyhollow, which may be applied by means of hooks to any stove pot hole,and that, by means of a sectional tubular device rising therefrom, I amenabled to conduct gases and odors arising from cooking out ofla pot orvessel, either directly from the vessel itself or from a perforation inthe lid thereof into the body of a stove or range where they areconsumed, decomposed, or are carried through the flue into the air.

I am well aware that a sectional duct rigidly secured to a culinaryvessel and connected thereto for the purpose of conveying the steam andodors arising from cookingfrom the interior of the said vessel to thefire-chamber of a stove is not new, hence I make 11o broad claim to sucha device.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is v Thedetachable hollow base-support B, provided with the hooks a a, andsectional adju-str.

able tubular ducts G C1 C2, and spring S for holding the sections in anyrequired position, in combination with the lid E, having the duct F andhook f, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

ALOYS FROMLET.

Witnesses:

AERM. CROSS, J As. W. GRAY.

